The Improvised Shakespeare Company
2005-present · Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; touring
Also known as ISC, ImprovShake
A full improvised Shakespeare play, in verse, based on a single audience-suggested title — the most replicated 'genre' long-form of the 21st century.
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- Founded 2005 by Blaine Swen (then a philosophy PhD at Loyola and Second City student).
- Open run at iO Theater since 2006.
- Performed at Kennedy Center, Hollywood Ford, LA Phil Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ensemble Arts Philly.
- Spawned an entire 'single-author pastiche' genre in improv (Austentatious, The Improvised Oscar Wilde, etc.).
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